[olug] Configuring Sendmail

Vincent vincentr at cox.net
Mon Jul 7 13:30:07 UTC 2003


You should only need to edit two lines in sendmail.cf:
Dj$w.om.om.cox.net
DSsmtp.central.cox.net

/etc/sysconfig/sendmail should look like this:
DAEMON=yes
QUEUE=1m

Then run these commands:
chkconfig sendmail on
service sendmail restart


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Carlsen" <edcarlsen at cox.net>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:54 AM
Subject: [olug] Configuring Sendmail


> I have a Red hat 9.0 box on COX at home cable modem and would like to use it
> for sending mail with PINE.
> I am trying to configure sendmail but it does not seem to work. I tried
> using webmin to configure but I am not sure where to put the COX server
> name, smtp.central.cox.net.
> An I do not know the IP address for the COX mail server.
> What is the simpliest way to configure sendmail to send mail through the
> mail server at smtp.central.cox.net?
> Thanks.
> Ed Carlsen
> 
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